Re: applying AES-GCM to secure shell: proposed "tweak"

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%sun.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 03:51:35PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%sun.com@localhost> writes:
> 
> >[So far the only extensibility mechanisms that we have at that point in the
> >protocol are: new protocol version number (not going to happen) and magic
> >algorithm names (which have been used successfully).]
> 
> ... and the completely unused 32-bit flags field in the first message, which I
> mentioned previously :-).

This:

      uint32       0 (reserved for future extension)

?

Yes, that could be used too.